Friday March 24, 2023 at 8 PM
Doors at 7:45pm; Screening at 8:00 pm

AUTOMATA presents

Exhalations: Films by Kalpana Subramanian

The filmmaker will be present.

Join us on Friday March 24 for a rare Los Angeles screening and conversation with celebrated film and media artist Kalpana Subramanian.

For over 20 years, Kalpana Subramanian has created a remarkable body of work spanning films, media art, children’s books, scholarship, and curatorial work. Her recent work is invested in a cinema of breath: a framework for radical cinema grounded in intersectional-feminist and decolonial thought, alternative approaches to embodiment, and what Achille Mbembe calls “the universal right to breathe.” This solo screening brings together recent and older short films from 2002 to the present day, including the entirety of her Light Mediated series. The filmmaker will be present for a Q&A following the screening.

This program was originally presented by Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo, NY),  curated by Ekrem Serdar.

Special thanks to Journey’s End Refugee Services.

This program is supported, in part, through a Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation IDEA Visiting Artist Award , and is part of Kalpana Subranamian’s Residency at the CalArts, in collaboration with the CalArts School of Theater and  CalArts School of Film/Video, with additional support from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.